Seed-planter.



F. B. CHESBROUGH.

SEED PLANTER.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT.22, |9II.

Patented Aug. 6, 1918.

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Be it known that I, FRnMoN'r B. CHES- BROUGH, a `citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Seed- Planters, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to seed planters, and particularlyv to planters designed rfor planting small garden seeds, such as'beets, turnips, lettuce, etc.

The general object'of the inventionis to provide a planting device of a4 very-simple and cheap construction, which may be readily operated by hand and by which the seeds may be evenly distributed in a furrow formed by the planter itself.

A further object is to provide a device of this character comprising aseed box, a furrow or trench forming device, which is hollow, and provide means wherebythe seeds may be agitated and distributed and allowed to fall into the trench forming device and so into the trench or furrow formed thereby.

Other objects will appear in the course of the following description. ,Y

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein n, f v

Figure 1 is a longitudinal vertical sectional view through a seed planter constructed in accordance with my invention;

Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 8 is a section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1.

Referring to these figures, 10 designates the seed box of the planter, which may be of any suitable dimensions, this seed box having a bottom 11, the bottom being formed to provide a plurality of hopper shaped recesses or cups 12, each open at its lower end as at 13. Disposed below the bottom 11 is a trench or furrow former 111, which is formed of two plates of metal, each plate of metal being angularly flanged atits up per end, as at 15, so as to be attached to the bottom 11, the two plates extending downward toward each other in convergent relation, but being spaced from each other at their lower ends to leave a longitudinal passage through which the seed may drop. The forward end of this trench or furrow former is closed by a wall 16 and the rear Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. e, 191s.

Application led September 22, 1917'y Serial No. 192,762.

end may be eitherfopened or closed, as desired, but'v is preferably closed.

' Disposed within the vseed-box'10,and rest-- ing upon the bottom; 11,is 'a reciprocating seed plate 17, having a plurality of passages or perforations 18.- These passages 18 are arranged on the middle line ofthe plate and in alinement with`the1openings'13, andthe upper face of this?` plate is cut away ,to provide downwardly-and.` rmedia'lly inclined faces 19, so that the lseed within the seedbox 4.will becaused to gravitate ltowardlthe perforations, 18. The -plate 17 extends out through an opening in the endf-wall-'of the seed ybox and is provided with a thumb piece .20,fwherebyA theplate maybe readily? reciprocated. The bottom 11 also extends out beyond bothend: walls of the' seed box and at one end isfs'lotted as at22 for the passage of al boltv 23. lThis bolt engages with a stopa21, which. is movable toward or from the adjacent end wall of the seed'box totthusv adjustably limit the degree of reciprocation .of the slide 17. "The adjacent endofthe bottomll is formed with a handle f24,and the opposite end ofzthe bottom is'provided with the upwardly extending handle 425. y

To' operatejthis device,"- the V-shaped trench or furrow forming member is pressed into the ground by the handles` 25` and "24 and the slide 17 is moved back and forth by the thumb piece 20 depositing the seed in the trench forming member 14, where it falls through into the ground and is covered when the planter is moved along, the 0peration being continuous to the end of the row to be planted. I have found in practice that this device is particularly effective for planting small seeds and that the work may be done very rapidly and the seed distributed very evenly within the trench or furrow formed by the member 14. It will be of course seen that by providing a trench former narrower than the bottom of the seed box, the trench so formed has a uniform depth, this depth being the depth proper for the planting of such small garden seeds as are to be used with this device. It is obvious that the device is susceptible to modification in many ways, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

It is to be understood that the base plate or bottom 11 is provided with holes large enough to permit the largest seeds desired to be sown to pass through the perforations.`

The ysliding plate 18 has similar holes and if thelst'op 2l -is so adj usted that the .perforations in the slide 17 only partially register with the perforations in the bottom 11, it will be obvious that the quantity and also the size of the seed dropped into the furrow opener would be regulated. If the adjustable Stor 21 iS S0 adjusted that the sliding plate 17 canbebrought at each reciproca! tion into full register with the holes in the bottom 11, then it is obvious that seed to the full capacity of the openings will pass through. The smaller ,the passages in the bottom 11 and the .coacting 'perforations in the slide, the smaller will be the seeds which can be sown.

The reciprocating seed plate `1"? .provides means for 'regu-lating'the quantity of seed sown by yopening or closing the passages leading from the seed box to the' furrow `former 14 and it also admits of kthe sowing of different kinds of seeds, of either large or small size, and iinally by the adjustment of the stop element-21 whereby the extent of reciprocating movement of the seed plate may be varied, the seed will be evenly distributed along the yentire length of the row, thus .eecting4 considerable economy in the sowing of the seed. When the device is lifted,'the earth will cave into the furrow formed by the part 14 and cover vthe seed.

Having described my invention, what I claim is l. Aplanting device ofthe character described, including'a seed box having a bottom formed with a plurality of seed 'receiving recesses terminating iin apertures extending through the bottom, a manually reciproeatable slide disposed within thev seed box Goria 0f .this patent may he .obtained for and resting upon the bottom thereof and having perforations extending thi-ough the slide, oppositely disposed handles attached to the seed box, one ,of said handles extending in a horizontal plane and the other handle extending in a vertical plane, one end of the slide extending out through the wall of the seed box and being provided with a thumb piecey disposed adjacent the horizontally extending 'handle, and a stop mounted upon the handle and adjustable toward or from the slide and limiting the reciprocation thereof. f

2. A seed planter oi the character Adescribed including a seed box having a bottom formed with a plurality of discharge perforations, said bottom extending at both ends beyond the box, a vertically extending handle attached to one end of Vthe bottom, the other end of the bottom being longitudinally slotted and having a horizontally disposed handle attached thereto, a slide formed with perforations L and disposed within the seed box, one end of theslide extending out through the wall of the seed box and resting upon the slotted portion of the bottom extension and being provided with a thumb piece, abolt passing through the slot or said bottom extension, and ay stop carried upon said bolt and adjustable therewith toward or from the adjacent end ofthe slide to limit the movement of the slide.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aiiix my signature in the presence of two witnesses JOHN BIDERBEne, I. Rosa.

ve cents each, by addressing the .Golnmlssioner of Patents. Washington, D. G. 

